THIS DESTROYS Your Brain! - AvoId These Risk Factors TODAY... | Daniel Amen

The brain is capable of some incredible and life-altering changes. The hippocampus actually creates 700 new stem cells every single day, meaning the brain can regenerate, improve, and heal from traumatic injuries and other significant insults to function better than ever.

We’re more successful at this when we know what the underlying causes of dysfunction are. The brain is one organ that is often treated without ever being seen. Imaging provides us with an amazing look at what areas of the brain are suffering. We can also look at our habits, genetic predispositions, emotional and physical health history, environment, and many other factors to understand the root of brain imbalances.

Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to our good friend and colleague, Dr. Daniel Amen, about all this and more.

Dr. Amen is a physician, double board-certified psychiatrist, twelve-time New York Times bestselling author, and founder of Amen Clinics, with 10 clinics across the United States. Amen Clinics has the world’s largest database of brain SPECT scans related to behavior, totaling nearly 200,000 scans on patients from 150 countries.

Dr. Amen’s research team has published more than 80 scientific articles on his work, and Discover Magazine named his research using SPECT to distinguish posttraumatic stress disorder from traumatic brain injury as one of the top 100 stories in science for 2015.

Dr. Amen is the author of many books including the mega-bestseller Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, as well as The End of Mental Illness, Memory Rescue, Healing ADD, and The Daniel Plan, written with Dr. Mark Hyman and Pastor Rick Warren. In March 2021, he released Your Brain Is Always Listening: Tame the Hidden Dragons That Control Your Happiness, Habits and Hang Ups.

In this episode, we dive into:
- How improving your brain health improves every aspect of your life (1:03)
- Why Dr. Amen hates the term mental illness (6:19)
- What you do to your brain you do to your body (7:52)
- The hidden forces that are having a dramatic impact on our brain and bodies (11:01)
- What Dr. Amen did to take control of his brain health (17:32)
- How to have mastery over the health of your brain and body (22:20)
- How influences from your past steal your happiness (27:20)
- How mold can wreak havoc on the brain (42:02)
- How to get control over the inflammation in your body and brain (48:49)
- Common reasons why people get derailed from following through on a plan (55:01)

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[sharonp.]

Dhru is the best interviewer! He asks the important questions and quickly gets out of the way for his guest to answer. He doesn't interject or interrupt. Dr. Amen is engaging, convincing and a joy to listen to. Thank you.

[kathyellis]

I never comment, but now that EVERYONE seems to have a podcast...I can really see the difference in the quality of the information and how it is broken down clearly for the lay person to understand. You and Max Lugavere are my absolute favorite! You are professional, ask good questions, KEEP YOUR SPEAKERS ON POINT, and have great speakers. Thank you, and please keep it up!

[vinitham]

I'm very fond of Dr Amen, his MSG on how to keep the brain healthy is great, there is a touch of humour too, I heard Dr say retirement, NoNo Dr, we all need you, your so learned and blessed and helping mankind, TQ sooo much 💕

[kicknadeadcat]

Never made it to Woodstock but I did go to Watkins Glen. 300, 000 plus people. I have pictures. I couldn’t spot one fat person in the crowds. My kids looking at the photos said, why was everyone so thin? My reply, most parents cooked real food for their kids back then.

[zanetaurbanaviciene]

Dhru, you are doing a wonderful job. Thank you for bringing to us your and your guest's wisdom 🙏 I know from my experience that what you are talking about on your channel is true and life-changing information because I’ve healed naturally from autoimmune disease.

[OhioBeverly]

I love your podcasts...and your guests are amazing. Not only am I your fan...but love Dr.

[kebirnasr-eddine]

Salam everyone, good podcast & best wishes from Algeria.

[alizegoiriaegidazu]

Im discovering this channel and loving it. Congratulations!!

[MaricellaIbarra]

Is scanning the brain also bad for the brain? I would love to have mine scanned.

[DeniseCummins]

I admire Dr. Amen s work on keeping your brain healthy, but his views on obesity need to be updated. All six of his "reasons" why people are overweight assume that overeating is the cause, and we need to understand why people are overeating. I suggest Dr. Amen read Dr. Sara Gootfried's books (particularly the most recent one) on the relationship between hormones and weight. She describes poignantly and accurately the all too common struggle that women face in maintaining a healthy weight despite eating a healthy diet and exercising. In fact, women frequently starve themselves and exercise themselves to the point of hormonal exhaustion in an effort to stay thin. Overweight isn't a simple matter of "calories in vs calories burned".

[a_c]

I wonder what genetic codes are being passed on by animals to their offsprings, what level of traumatic, depressed, sad and fearful codes are being transferred and people are yummingly eating them. Whats the influence that has on our body as well.

[leandraainlove]

Playback speed at 1.5x, you're welcome!!

[ssgundes]

what if your brain likes a certain substance like caffeine whereas your stomach doesn't?

[jan-martinulvag]

Good thing about these videos are that they are so long I don't want to watch them

[adifferentbias]

*The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: "the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left".*

[snailz]

My dentist cleans my teeth with no pain in less than 30 minutes, you either have very bad teeth or very bad hygienist. LOL Great info. BTW!

[johnmwangi]

Its horrifying that when u increase weight ur brain health decreases it goes down